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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MKTBUZZ who wrote (204435)	11/21/2001 3:55:34 PM
From: calgal	Respond to of 769670

Happy Thanksgiving!

To: MKTBUZZ who wrote (204435)	11/22/2001 2:57:09 AM
From: KLP	Respond to of 769670

A friend sent these thoughts about this Thanksgiving: Soon we will celebrate Thanksgiving 2001. As the day approaches I find myself thinking of all those people who will wonder what they have to be thankful for this year. I think of the families in New York City and Washington D.C. whose pain will become more acute as they gather together and remember their loved ones, and reminisce about Thanksgiving celebrations of the past. I wonder how they will bear it. What will we say at our Thanksgiving tables this year? Life has changed for most of us this year. Our own stories were written this September – not of the baby boomer generation, not of Generation X, not of the greatest generation, but of those who us who became witnesses and victims of an act of war in our home. A defining moment arrived and it will shape us forever. Some of us are defiant, some emotionally devastated, some proud of our people, some shocked at our reactions, some paralyzed by fear, some too grieved to care. A patriotic tide has swept the land. The little details of life have assumed an importance we could not have predicted three months ago. So, this year, as we gather together with family or friends or strangers who will become friends, we can be thankful for these things. We can be thankful we are together. We can be thankful we live in a country where the spirit of love, compassion and unity really existed, regardless of what the media said about the “me” generation. We can be thankful for the courageous people in the airliner that crashed in Pennsylvania who thought of others and prevented more destruction of our national monuments. We can be thankful for the selfless heroism of our public servants – our firefighters, our policemen, our mailmen – all those whose jobs and service we took for granted. We can be thankful for our teachers who soothed, explained, held and comforted our confused and distraught children. We can be thankful for a wake-up call – a reminder of the things that matter in life – our friends, family, and communities. We can be thankful for our leaders who held us together, who became one political party, one voice, one cry against those who would have separated us. We can be thankful that the things that made America strong and proud could not be destroyed: our strength, our dreams, and our commitment to a free and democratic society. God Bless America!

To: MKTBUZZ who wrote (204435)	12/1/2001 12:46:42 PM
From: isopatch	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

<GOP Stews at Dems' 'Shameful' Attack on Bush, 11/30 Republicans expressed shock and disgust today that House Democrats planned to blame the economic downturn on President Bush. "The bottom line is, this is George Bush's recession," Rep. Nita Lowey, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee chief, says in today's edition of USA Today. A spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee called the comments of Lowey, D-N.Y., "despicable" and predicted the attack would backfire. "I think it shows incredibly poor political judgment to attack a president with an 86 percent approval rating," said NRCC communications director Steve Schmidt. "The economy was in a slowdown in the last days of the Clinton administration, and the slowdown was exacerbated by the Sept. 11 attacks." Fox News Channel reported tonight that former Clinton strategist James Carville and others planned the negative campaign a month ago. Equating the television advertising campaign to a political attack on the president in a time of war, Senate Minority Leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., described it nearly in terms of treason. "This is shameful, absurd and very poorly timed,” Lott told reporters today. House Speaker Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., said in a statement: "I understand that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee will run an advertising campaign that seeks to attack President Bush for his efforts to provide economic security for the American people. "I find it said that the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee would seek to profit politically from the slowdown in the economy caused in part by the events of Sept. 11." One DCCC staffer who refused to be identified told United Press International that the ad campaign would not blame President Bush, but Lowey's revelation to USA Today exposed that claim as untrue. Senate plurality leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., insisted that his party was patriotic. "I haven't seen the ads," he told reporters Friday. "I'd want to see them before I comment. "I would just say that I think that there is sensitivity right now in the administration about the Bush economy. We're in a recession. The budget director has just announced that we would be in deficits for several years. That is something we predicted a long time ago. We said last spring, 'You pass that tax cut, we're going to see deficits.' Now the administration agrees with us." Of course, as shrewd former Clintonoid Dick Morris has pointed out, the Democrats are stalling action on an economic stimulus because they want to prolong the recession for political gain. The big question is whether the GOP will, as usual, stand around and huff as the Democrats play dirty pool and win, or whether it will return fire for once.>